The Forgotten 1960s Quad-Prop Tiltrotor That Foreshadowed The V-22 Osprey By 40 Years
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Both Bell and Curtiss-Wright built demonstrator tiltrotors in the 1950s and 60s, but Curtiss's tiltrotors are now mostly lost to history.
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